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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	forgive_v	lord_n	trespass_n	3,485	5	11.3824	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25834	Secret and family prayers with brief helps for the more devout receiving of the Lords-Supper And better observation of the Lords-day, as also to further the needfull duties of catechizing, visiting the sick, and personal instruction. Fitted for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Cartmel in Lancashire.	Armstrong, John, 1634 or 5-1698.	1677 (1677)	Wing A3708A; ESTC R214879	44,221	112

not bear false witness against thy Neighbour X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours House thou shalt not covet thy neighbours Wife nor his Servant nor his Maid nor his Ox nor his Ass nor any thing that is his Quest What dost thou chiefly learn by these Commandments Ans I learn two things my duty towards God and my duty towards my Neighbour Quest What is thy duty towards God Ans My duty towards God is to believe in him to fear him and love him with all my Heart with all my Mind with all my Soul and with all my strength to worship him to give him thanks to put my whole trust in him to call upon him to honour his holy Name and his Word and to serve him truly all the days of my life Quest What is thy duty towards thy Neighbour Ans My duty towards my Neighbour is to love him as my self and to do to all Men as I would they should do to me To love honour and succour my Father and Mother To honour and obey the King and all that are put in Authority under him To submit my self to all my Governours Teachers Spiritual Pastours and Masters To order my self lowly and reverently to all my Betters To hurt no body by word or deed To be true and just in all my Dealings To bear no malice nor hatred in my Heart To keep my hands from picking and stealing and my tongue from evil speaking lying and slandering To keep my body in temperance soberness and chastity Not to covet nor desire other mens goods but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living and to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me Cat. My good Child know this that thou art not able to do these things of thy self nor to walk in the Commandments of God and to serve him without his special Grace which thou must learn at all times to call for by diligent Prayer Let me hear therefore if thou canst say the Lords Prayer Ans Our Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdome come Thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily Bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil Amen Quest What desirest thou of God in this Prayer Ans I desire my Lord God our heavenly Father who is the giver of all goodness to send his Grace unto me and to all People that we may worship him serve him and obey him as we ought to do And I pray unto God that he will send us all things that be needfull both for our Souls and Bodies and that he will be mercifull unto us and forgive us our sins and that it will please him to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily and that he will keep us from all sin and wickedness and from our ghostly enemy and from everlasting death And this I trust he will do of his mercy and goodness through our Lord Jesus Christ And therefore I say Amen So be it Quest How many Sacraments hath Christ ordained in his Church Ans Two only as generally necessary to Salvation that is to say Baptism and the Supper of the Lord. Quest What meanest thou by this word Sacrament Ans I mean an outward visible Sign of an inward and spiritual Grace given unto us ordained by Christ himself as a means whereby we receive the same and a pledge to assure us thereof Quest How many parts are there in a Sacrament Ans Two the outward visible Sign and the inward spiritual Grace Quest What is the outward visible sign or form in Baptism Ans Water wherein the person is baptized In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Quest What is the inward and spiritual Grace Ans A death unto sin and a new birth unto Righteousness for being by nature born in sin and the children of wrath we are hereby made the children of Grace Quest What is required of persons to be baptized Ans Repentance whereby they forsake sin and Faith whereby they stedfastly believe the promises of God made to them in that Sacrament Quest Why then are Infants baptized when by reason of their tender age they cannot perform them Ans Because they promise them both by their sureties which promise when they come to age themselves are bound to perform Quest Why was the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper ordained Ans For the continual remembrance of the sacrifice of the death of Christ and of the benefits which we receive thereby Quest What is the outward part or sign of the Lords-Supper Ans Bread and Wine which the Lord hath commanded to be received Quest What is the inward part or thing signified Ans The Body and Blood of Christ which are indeed taken and received by the faithfull in the Lords Supper Quest What are the benefits whereof we are partakers thereby Ans The strengthning and refreshing of our Souls by the Body and Blood of Christ as our bodies are by the Bread and Wine Quest What is required of them who come to the Lords Supper Ans To examine themselves whether they repent them truly of their former sins stedfastly purposing to lead a new life have a lively faith in Gods mercy through Christ with a thankfull remembrance of his death and be in charity with all men When the Sacrament comes every fourth moneth to be administred for any of the Divisions above mentioned the respective Church and Chappel-Wardens thereof are desired to give timely notice unto a fitting number of Servants and Children within the same to be catechised on the Sacrament Day for the said Division or on some other day of that Moneth Thus the care of this needfull exercise will be more equally shared among them and the duty it self more constantly performed And the better to observe an Order in thus calling the Youth to Catechizing in the said Divisions it may be convenient to begin in the Higher End of each of them and so to go by House-rows as much as may be through the whole taking a convenient number of Families at a time Concerning Personal Instruction THe like course so far as it shall be found convenient may be used concerning Personal Instruction whereby as the younger sort in several Families come to the Church to be catechized so the elder People in the same or the like number of Families may come to the Ministers house or he go to theirs to discourse with him in a plain familiar way of the most necessary Gospel Truths and Christian duties which most nearly concern Gods honour and worship and our eternal Salvation To this purpose we may improve the Church Catechism or the following Profession of Faith and Catechism consisting but of 12 Questions and Answers endeavouring fully to understand and to practice the things therein